Travolta Makes Emergency Landing

Actor John Travolta's plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Boston's Logan International Airport on Sunday after an engine overheated and shut down, an airport official said.

Travolta's private Boeing 707, carrying the actor and seven others, was forced to land about 3:30 p.m., Logan spokesman Phil Orlandella said. The plane's three other engines were working.

It wasn't clear whether Travolta, a licensed pilot, was flying the plane, Orlandella said. He said Travolta left on another plane soon after the emergency landing.

The plane had been flying from Los Angeles to Bangor, Maine, where Travolta regularly lands when heading to his island home in Isleboro, Maine, about 30 miles south of Bangor.

Buffett: Crash made me a better pilot

Jimmy Buffett traded in his margarita for more traditional picnic fare when he joined almost 4,000 people at the International Seaplane Fly-in in Greenville, Maine.

Three years ago the singer almost died after crashing his plane into Nantucket Harbor, but he still climbs into the cockpit. He has said the crash made him a better, more cautious pilot.

Buffett, 52, is best known for his hit song Margaritaville. He dropped in Saturday to have a hot dog with pilots. Proceeds from the annual fly-in benefit a number of causes, including the Maine Aviation Historical Society.

Greek port city honors Dukakis

Former Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis was honored on Monday with a gold medal from the mayor of the port city of Thessaloniki in northern Greece.

Dukakis, a Greek-American and former governor of Massachusetts, was invited to inaugurate a chair in public policy named after him at Thessaloniki's Anatolia College.

Dalai Lama calls for end to suffering

The turn of the millennium will be "just another day and night" for the Dalai Lama, unless mankind resolves to end the kind of suffering going on in East Timor and other trouble spots.

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, opening an international conference in Dharmsala, India, on Sunday on science and spirituality, said compassion must lead to action if the next era is to be any different.

"When we see these sort of unfortunate things, just to feel sorry ... that is not sufficient," he said. "The new millennium is nothing special, just another day and night."

The Dalai Lama has lived in exile in Dharmsala since 1959, when he fled Chinese rule in Tibet.

Crown prince introduces fiancee

Belgian Crown Prince Philippe on Monday presented his new fiancee to the nation in a chaotic media ceremony on the grounds of the royal palace in Brussels.

Scores of television crews and photographers pushed and shoved security officers as Philippe and Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz strolled hand-in-hand across a sun-drenched lawn of the royal palace at Laken, on the northern outskirts of Brussels.

The couple's engagement was announced last Friday. Philippe, 39, said Monday he was "enormously touched" by the outpouring of public support for him and his fiancee, a 26-year-old speech therapist. They are to marry Dec. 4.

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It's the 257th day of the year; 108 days are left in 1999. On this date:

In 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland.

In 1901, President William McKinley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted eight days earlier by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him.